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Nov.08.2012 The Hidden Messages in Drafts All week, I’ve been exploring the Realm of Osiris, Egyptian God of the Underworld—a place writers often wander. (You may meet me there: I’ll be the one without a compass or map). We’re lured into this mysterious world by the elusive call of intuition, hunch, and instinct—reason has its place...	Feb.02.2012 Resolution again: Revise Resolution Again: Revise My New Year's resolution is the same as last year's, until June at least. 2011 was my first year writing in which I spent most of my time revising!After I revised my Authonomy Editor's Desk book, The Swan Bonnet, I kept going with my old stuff. I had loved the...
Sep.14.2011 Just to be with you... Just to be with you… Whenever I receive an invitation to blog in the Red Room, I am overjoyed! Sometimes the challenges are beyond me, and I don’t participate. However, when there is the slightest chance that I just might have something worthwhile to say; the doors are open wide to my...	Apr.11.2011 Approaching The Finish Line I posted last week about my progress on Lost Birth, the second volume in my upcoming young adult sci-fi/fantasy series, and I am very near to approaching the completion of this draft so I can send it off to my editor. My editor just handed me her edits on the first volume in the series,...
Jun.16.2010 Steven Pressfield Pressfield is one of our foremost non-fiction writers. His website covers current events, and he has a blog here, too, if you're interested. The passage included below is an example of something else he provides - advice for writers. Is the first draft the hardest? Is it different...	May.03.2010 Dup [doop] The Midwife’s Confession is due a week from tomorrow, so if I blog this week at all, it will not be with anything profound! Right now I’m writing drafts three and four at the same time. Hard to explain, but that’s what I’m doing. (Keeper and Jet are helping me organize the mess of paper on the...
Apr.18.2010 The Fine Art of Finishing About a year or so ago I was unwell for a long period of time, and most of my life came close to a standstill. As a type of occupational therapy, I took up knitting. Figuring that I couldn’t write for a while, I didn’t want to lose the use of my hands, and knitting seemed a good way to keep them...	Jul.21.2009 Drafts I was just chatting by email with my incredibly hilarious and talented friend Sean, who isn’t a huge fan of his first drafts. I totally get that. I, too, hate at least the first five drafts of anything I write. (However, I have to say that Sean’s first drafts are always a lot better than mine, so...
May.11.2009 Losing Pages I mentioned a while back that my computer was going. Yes, it is going, going, almost gone, though there is a spark of life in it yet. However, Michael and I thought it prudent to move my work life over to the HP until I could get some formal diagnosis on the Dell. So happily I was working...	Dec.28.2008 Resolutions for the New Year I've got plenty! We're closing in on 2009, and I think it's going to be a good one for me, and I hope for all of you as well. I know many people pooh-pooh New Year's resolutions, but I love them. I love that "fresh start" each year. So I'm going public with mine, in the hope that will...